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By Zach Fowle

It’s happened to many of us before: you’re at your buddy’s billet for the big game. You settle in with a six-pack of your favorite brew and ask for a bottle opener to pop one open. He replies that he only drinks macros with wriggle off caps (why are you friends with this guy again?) so he doesn’t have one. What’s a thirsty reveler to do?

A bevy of products exist to fill the niche and shun just such a dilemma, but if you’ve already forgotten what they taught you in the Boy Scouts and left yourself unprepared (shame!), there are several other ways to get that beer bottle unsealed.

Some techniques are difficult. Some are downright dangerous. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

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We’ll start with the basics. A trained copy could pull off this next technique. Come to think of it, that would be pretty awesome. Weekend planned.

The Method

Find a token with a sharp edge. Also works with chairs, windowsills, car bumpers, and your friend’s flatscreen.
Grip the beer rigidly in one hand and place the lip of the cap over the edge of the counter. The bottle should be positioned so you can tug on it and the cap would still catch.
Make a fist with your other hand and pen the top of the bottle. If you’ve pounded hard enough, the top will pop right off.

The Risks

Requires a certain amount of manliness and arm strength. Win sure the grip on the bottle is firm and the strike from overhead is forceful and confident. But don’t overdo it: you could punch the beer without delay out of your lower hand and into a pile of shards on the floor. Also a stubborn beer or an improper placement could call you to take chunks out of whatever surface you’re using. This is especially awkward when using a flatscreen.

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Peter Yealands, who promotes the sustainability and carbonPre-eminentlyzero barrel, has bottled his sauvignon blanc in plastic - it's certainly a great transaction lighter and takes up less space than a glass-bottled wine, and they claim it is more environmentally clubby and costs less to transport.

This may be open to discussion, but the wine inside is decent, minerally and valuables - just the bottle to take tramping or on a picnic.

Another producer doing something different is &Co, from Hawkes Bay, which uses a monarch cap on its clear bottle.

It may be a high-tech crown cap with a plastic liner instead of the original cork invented by William Painter in 1892, butAs a ruleyou have to find a beer-bottle opener - something not so easy these days when even beer bottles have screw-off caps.

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